So, a big aspect of any destination wedding is a hotel block. If we're asking our nearest and dearest to make the trip, we want to offer them the best accommodations we can!

Fortunately, Disney offers a variety of hotels in different price points. Part of our contract with them is that we have to guarantee a total of 25 hotel nights from us and our guests- otherwise, we pay the difference.

That might sound scary at first...but when you do the math, it's actually not scary at all. For one, we're not just counting the night of the wedding - this includes any nights that are booked by our guests for nights surrounding our wedding. If Mr. L and I stay there a week...that's 7 nights right there. Since we have ~120 guests...well, as you can see, 25 hotel nights is virtually nothing

We actually had to set up our hotel blocks BEFORE we signed our contract. Disney recommends you offer guests 3 different hotels to choose from - one 'value' resort, one 'moderate,' and one 'deluxe.'

For House Party gal "M"'s wedding in 2011, she knew she wanted coordinated, but not matching bridesmaid dresses. She decided on a color palette (rust, brown, and gold/copper) and decided to let us pick out our own dresses from there. However, the reality is, in order for this to work, there was has to be a certain amount of balance of colors. We couldn't have five of us in brown, and one in gold and one in rust! Since it was a bit of a project, the bride asked me to be her "Dress Wrangler," helping sort out and suggesting dresses for the group.

As I've mentioned before, BW Groom and I started legitimately considering a Disney wedding a couple months before getting engaged. I do not remember what specifically spurred it, but I remember asking 'permission' from him to send away for Disney's brochure with basic information about 6 weeks prior to our engagement.